The NDP gained some ground on Christensen in the 2005 election, when Juliette Cunningham took 33.5 per cent of the vote. It still wasn’t enough to beat Christensen’s 43 per cent.

Huguette Allen made a valiant effort for the Greens in 2009, with 16.6 per cent of the vote — the most the party has seen in this riding in at least two decades. That year, the NDP candidate, Mark Olsen, came close to unseating Liberal Eric Foster. Foster won by a margin of just 5.4 per cent, with 37.3 per cent of the vote compared to Olsen’s 31.8 per cent.

Olsen tried again in May 2013 to unseat Foster, and once again, failed. Not only that, Foster increased his share of the votes significantly, up to 46 per cent. Olsen, meanwhile, had 34 per cent. The Conservatives took home 11.7 per cent with candidate Scott Anderson, and the Greens seven per cent.

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